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[Letters from Africa] Jessen (Kigoma) to 'Herr Inspektor' (Lucht?) about the advance of Islam, a local library, financial problems and learning the Swahili language.
[Letters from Africa] Bock (Kikangala) to 'Herr Inspektor' (Lucht?) with reference to the catastrophic living conditions in the mission house in Kikangala, which the Bock couple has to share with the Andersen couple. Existing money should not be invested in the construction of a church, but in the construction of a second mission house with living space. accuses Jessen and Andersen of spreading falsehoods. Reported that the station in Makamba has been abandoned because the place had been chosen so unfavorably. Try to identify the culprit. Dissatisfaction with the higher salary Jessen gets. Reference to the completely inadequate salary and permanent financial hardship 'because I do not call a heller my own'.
[Letters from Africa] Andersen (Ikikangala) to 'Herr Missionsinspektor' (Lucht?) about different forms of pronunciation of place names (e.g. Kikangala, Igikangala etc.)
Letters from other mission houses and mission friends] Paschen (Neukirchner Mission) to Bracker about plans of the Neukirchner to take up again their former mission areas in Urundi. Request whether the route to Urundi via the former Breklum mission stations is possible. Paschen asked whether Breklum was still interested in the mission areas in Uha at all, or whether they could be left to new churches.
Mission Inspector Nitsch (Neukirchen) to Bracker with thanks to the Breklum General Assembly, which voted unanimously for the transfer of the former Breklum mission areas in Uha to Neukirchen.
Letters from other mission houses and mission friends] Nitsch (Neukirchen) to Piening (new mission director in Breklum) about a letter from missionary Ginsberg. In it he mentioned the shamba [field, garden] of the misisonary Bock. Piening may now ask Bock 'whether this shamba was indeed his private property and has remained so? And what is to be done to get possibly this - as it seems, valuable - property for the mission work?
Piening (Breklum) to Nitsch (Neukirchen) about the fact that Breklum would vote against the admission of the Protestant missionary association. Breklum fears that 'we rightly offended our warmest and most loyal friends. In Wiesbaden, one should very carefully consider whether one wants to give up the inner solidarity of the Missionary Alliance for the sake of an external unity idea'.
Letters from other mission houses and friends] Nitsch (Neukirchen) to Piening (Breklum) about the meeting in Wiesbaden at which the admission of the Protestant Mission Society (to Breklums and Neukirchen's satisfaction) was rejected.
Letters of other mission houses and mission friends] British Consulate General to Breklumer Mission for authentication and sending to Neukirchner Mission.
[Letters from Africa] Copy of a letter from missionary E. Ginsberg (Shunga) to 'Herr Inspektor' (Neukirchen) with a report on how the people of Neukirchen follow in the footsteps of the Breklumers in Uha. The station Shunga has been put back into operation, Kikangala and Kigoma are to follow. But the Catholics have also had an eye on the former Breklum site in Kikangala. Therefore Ginsberg asks that the property in Kikangala, which is apparently Bock's private property, be transferred to the Breklum Mission so that they can pass the property on to the Neukirchner.
Andersen (Kitunda) to Bracker about Christmas, a trip to Uha, comparison of civilized India with wild Africa, construction times and costs for two mission houses.
Andersen (Tabora) to Lucht about a journey with crossing of crocodile-contaminated waters, the expected difficult transport of the burdens of the arriving brothers, disappointment that Bracker does not travel to Africa with Bock and Jessen, financial matters, the course of a malaria disease.
Andersen (prisoner of war in Vire, Calvados) to Lucht. Description of her journey as a prisoner from Tabora to Pontierville, Stanleyville, Matadi to France. Description of the fatal course of dysentery in his sons Jens and Anders during the journey. Announcement that Mrs Andersen will soon arrive in her home country with the request for financial support. News that Bocks have stayed in Tabora and Jessens have been seen for the last time in Pontierville.
[Personalakte Nicolai Andersen] Postcard from Andersen (prisoner of war in Vire, Calvados) to Lucht with the request to send teaching material in English, since Andersen would like to use his time in captivity for further education. Message that so far no message from Breklum has reached him. Ask for money.
[Personalakte Nicolai Andersen] Postcard from Andersen (POW in Vire, Calvados) to Bracker about some fellow prisoners and their whereabouts. Jessens are also trapped in Vire and Bocks are in Tabora. You'd be in a very bad way.
[Personalakte Nicolai Andersen] Andersen (POW in Tabora) to 'Sir' with the request that kind regards be forwarded to the parents in Germany. Her son Anders was born last May in Shunga.
Andersen (POW in Vire) to Bracker about the whereabouts of the Bock family. Bocks stayed in Tabora as nurses. Mrs Bock had given birth to a girl, but neither father nor mother nor newborn baby were doing well. They urgently need to be brought to Europe. Andersen about war and the instinct for self-preservation, homesickness and money worries. Her savings had been spent on the burial of her sons and warm clothing. Request assistance.
[Personal file Nicolai Andersen] Bertha Andersen (POW in Vire) to Bracker with a detailed description of the escape from Shunga. On 19 June 1916 they left the station and fled to Tabora on foot and by train. Afterwards accommodation in Bracken, hotels and tents. Communications about other refugees. The description suddenly breaks off due to lack of space and ends with a greeting.
[Personalakte Nicolai Andersen] Andersen (POW in Vire) to Bracker about the once again delayed departure of his wife and daughter with the request for money.
[Personalakte Nicolai Andersen] Andersen (Söllstedt) to Bracker about the first Christmas in nine years in Germany and the joy about it. Pain over the loss of his two boys. Description of individual moments during Jens' illness. Lack of clarity regarding further employment. Andersen lacks languages for ordination as a pastor, he would like to work as a civil engineer or teacher.
Andersen (Kitunda) to Bracker about the nature (climatic, geographical, linguistic, ethnic) of possible locations for the new Breklumer stations. Itumba, Kilimantinde and Wamba are under discussion. Since the Brethren Church was unable to occupy the villages mentioned due to lack of money, Breklum was to intervene before the Catholics occupied these villages.
